General options 

Use the General options node to configure:  

  The retention period of the collected (Internet activity) data.  

  The email alerting options.  

Data Retention Options 

Screenshot 10   General options page 

For monitoring and reporting, GFI WebMonitor collects and retains 

data related to web requests in memory. Unless the history data is 

reset, it can grow to a level which will affect the performance of GFI 

WebMonitor.  

In GFI WebMonitor, you can reset the collected data in two ways: 

  Automatically: GFI WebMonitor will automatically reset the 

collected data daily at midnight. 

  Manually: You must reset the collected data by pressing a reset 

data button from GFI WebMonitor interface. You can reset the 

Internet activity data history whenever required by clicking on the 

Reset button included at the top of the monitoring reports 

accessible through the `Monitor' node: (i.e., Monitor 

 URL History, 

Monitor 

 User History and the Monitor 

 Last Web Access nodes).  

To configure the data retention policy of GFI WebMonitor: 

1. Click on the Configuration 

 General Options node.  

2. Go to the  Data Retention Options  section.  

3. Select one of the following options:  

  I will reset the Connection data history list manually   Select 

this option to manually reset the history data cache. 

GFI WebMonitor 3 

Configuring GFI WebMonitor 

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